Chicago White Sox: Why Tim Anderson is the team’s biggest star

Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson is off to an unbelievable start to the season. Here is why Anderson is the White Sox biggest star.

After a 2018 season filled with growing pains, streakiness, and overall disappointment, Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson has emerged as a legitimate star player this season.

While the White Sox might be just 10-14, seemingly at least another year away from contention, Anderson’s play has been the biggest factor in the White Sox improvement in play from a season ago.

We’ll get to Anderson’s individual statistics in a bit, but the shortstop leads the White Sox in batting average, home runs, and stolen bases.

Anderson has also emerged as a real leader in the White Sox clubhouse, another thing that we’ll dive a little deeper into later on. All things considered, the full-fledged improvement by Anderson from last season’s disaster has been eye-opening and relieving.

For a team in the White Sox that have lacked a star player in the past five-or-so years, most of which during the rebuild, Anderson truly looks the part of a superstar, albeit early on in the season.

Everything that happens in April should be taken with a grain of salt, but Anderson looks like a completely different player than in season’s past, something that we can certainly expect to carry over in the following months.

10-14 is not that bad of a start, especially for the White Sox, whose 2018 season seemed to fizzle out fairly quickly after a horrendous start to the season. This season has been a whole lot different, even though the record does not reflect it completely.

A solid chunk of this improvement as a team can be attributed to Anderson, whose play has uplifted the entire ballclub as a whole. Here is why Anderson is the biggest star that the White Sox have had in quite a long time.